Grandma's Vanilla Cup Cakes...

Last night I didnt sleep well due to a bit of a head cold. Today I went to the park with the kids and it was so nice to be out in the sun. We all played chasey and fed some nice Rosella birds that were up in the trees in the park there.
Miss 3 yr old got into my Vanilla Oil Perfume and emptied the lot on her bed after we returned from the park, this did not impress me at all. Since she knew she was in deep trouble she started apologising before telling me what she did. Needless to say her room smells like Grandma's kitchen when Grandma used to bake them nice Vanilla cupcakes when I was a kid!
The sheet has been washed but it still smells like Vanilla, I guess it will take forever to come out of the sheet now. The oil usualy takes me about 3 years to use up.
Tomorrow I am going to watch boy number one do a cross country run for his school, it is supposed to be a lovely day too.
Off to search through the houses available in the area we want again, one without a noisy dog as a neighbour...
Cheers Cazzie!!!

I Have Pockets...

Today I was supposed to work but alas, my shift was cancelled. Since I woke at 4 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep I guess that is a bonus for me, although the extra pay for being a public holliday would have come in handy.
It was great weather so we all went to the park around the corner. We trailed off behind the four dumplings on their bikes..actualy..more like chased the girls before their training wheels got stuck off the path and in the grass, LOL.
We played footy and swung on the swings, it was a great time had by all.
Very recently, young Mia has had a deep love for all creatures great and small. We have these little black millipedes around again and she keeps picking them up. Andrew and I keep telling her no to and we said we would put them away ion the garden where she cannot find them. She proceeded to tell us in no uncertain terms, "Well, I have pockets and I will hide them from you." LOL, she has jeans on with heaps of pockets in them. Just now she came up to me and said, "Mum, my friends are out there in the freezing cold". I am to assume that she hasn't any in her pockets just now.
We watched a flick called "Duma" today, a recommended look at for everyone ...http://dumamovie.warnerbros.com/
Not much more to say but that we will be checkin out some properties coutesy of www.realestate.com.au . There were some new listings in the area we want added just last night in fact. Fingers crossed..
Cheers Cazzie!!!

To rent one...

Today we began looking at another place to rent, one closer to the rugrats' school. The house we chose to look at was a 4br place...pretty resonable rent too. I got the key, left my liscence and a $50 deposit to get the key..to the house. Got there and as soon as I got out of the car..WOOF..theres a dog next door. It never stopped barking the whole time. I think it was just a bored dog...the owners were out and I guess theres nothing else for the poor thing to do. So, I checked out the place, Andrew and I concured the place was nice enough but..the farkin barkin dog was the whole drawback. No way could I sleep after a night shift with a sound like that. The main bedroom backed onto the fence where the dog is too. So now its off to look for another place I guess.
Other than that, today my girls and I went to the boys' school to mark the rememberance of the Anzacs for tomorrow. Every year they do an assembly, laying of flowers, we took some lovely ones down there, and they sing songs. I was so proud of my pre schooler girls, they know the words to Advance Australia Fair.
Cheers Cazzie!!!

Since I was a wee wittle girl I was dragged up through footy here in Melbourne. First my mum barracked for Geelong, then she ,moved on to Carlton. We used to travel down to Geelong from the early hours of Saturday morning prior to a game to set up the change rooms for the players and the day was just packed with heaps of stuff to do. I remember standing there for the first time holding the banner as the players rabn through it. It was real exciting, even though the guy next to me also holding the pole for the run through was standing on my foot!!! I was yelling,"Get off my foot!"..but to no avail, he couldn't hear me because of the crazy fans screaming out and the Geelong Theme Song blaring out.
Well, for the past few weeks I have been watching The Footy Show of a Thursday night. I havent been keeping up with the AFL for a few years and I am slowly getting back into it. NOw there are two footy shows on, the first is the AFL and the second is the Rugby footy show.
I have to say, and I hate to admit it..I love the Rugby show better. Is that a crime?
The people on the panel are much funnier and arent trying to toot their own horns like the blokes on the AFL show. Take Sam as an example..yes Sam Newman..loves himself, works for him but it turns people off too. He is just plain rediculous half the time. I do have to say though, I agree with him last night when he said the problem with today's players is that they hold the ball too long, run with it and never kick it down toward their goal. If they disposed of the ball earlier itd give their team mates time to be there and be ready to mark the ball and the go for goal. Instead, they run with it, everyone knows where they are going, so the defence run down there alongside the players' own team mate and then there is a pack of people just waiting for the delivery. Early disposal, not running with the ball, = not as many people there so then less risk of disposing the ball to the other team.
Anyhow, thats enough from me. I think I need to get briefed on the rules of Rugby now...and this question I have needs answering...why do the Rugby guys love grabbing each other on the butt?
Cheers Cazzie!!!

Your Old News may be my New News..

I just discovered this site here...
http://outrageous-ebay.blogspot.com/
Just a random search that I did before, in the middle of trying to find the lyrics to a song my kids love.."Please don't call me a Koala Bear" By Don Spencer. Scroll on down to THE TOMKAT BOBBLEHEADS, that made me PMSL....that is if you arent getting hot after lookin at the first advert there of the hot chix....Mark!!! LOL
I WON I WON with Ebay...no, not a hot chick, what would I do with her when I am so damn hot myself??? I got a dickie seat for my new station wagon so I can get all 6 of us into the car at once and we can all go travelling across the country side (ask the Layland Brothers!!!).
Oh, and don't miss it..the Cracker Necklace is set to bring in a few bux, you will find it at the bottom of the page almost...unless the seller gets hungry and eats it first that is.
Cheers Cazzie!!!

Mythbusted!!!!

Well....as you can see by the name of my blog is..."I don't do mornings!" Well...the myth has been busted...I did a morning shift yesterday at work. Yes..I woke every hour throughout the night worried I would sleep through the alarm I had set on my phone...set at 5:45 a.m.
To top it off, I did an a.m. shift after having worked a p.m. shift the previous night. I haven't done a.m. after p.m. in about 10yrs. I never realy liked them because you feel that you no sooner left the hospital car park than you have returned to begin your a.m. shift.
I got home about 10:30p.m. Sunday night, went in for an a.m. shift to begin at 7a.m.
The "drawcard" is that it was public holliday rates for the a.m. shift. (Though I imagine that the tax office will be getting a chunk of it!) I had a psych special for my shift, this is no easy task, it is emotionaly draining especialy as it if it is a suicide watch. This is when your listening skills are the more important of any skill you have obtained in your career. Having a nurse in your face is not the picture I like to see when I come on shift and the patient is distraught enough without that. I have seen this before..it was a long time ago I gotta say. I love the team I work with.
Certainly having a 4 patient load is easier by far for me. I have to say, I don't take my work lightly. I always go to lengths to make sure my patient's are advocated for and that they are comfortable when I leave my shift. I guess it comes down to treating others as you would want to be treated yourself. Also, not loosing sight of what your job actualy is.
Throughout my career I guess I may have just about seen it all. I am a pretty reserved person but with time I have to say that I don't mind telling someone when it seems to be time for them to pick up the pace or even change their vocation because they have lost sight of what it means to be a professional.
Today the kids have another holliday day off it is Easter Tuesday I guess you would say... but, the teachers call it "PD day" Professional Development Day (Pissup Day I say!!!), just another day added to days they have already had off. I am sure we didnt have the amount of hollidays the kids have today. Did we? It is a lovely day...think I will recharge the batteries and take the kids to the park. They love going on the UFO dizzy wizzy thingy..thats what they call it anyhow. I get sick just looking at it!
Ciao for now, Cheers Cazzie!!!

Hollidays for everything...

I heard it on the news...lots of people taking advantage of the eve of Good Friday..let's call it Good "Thursday" Night to go live it up on the town. Lots of drinking and partying and so on. The dudes who mentioned it are on the breakfast programme on the radio. On their travels into work at 4:30am, they had sited loads of young'uns still partying.
I say good on them, live it up, paint the town red (or pink if they like!). Us Aussies seem to turn our holliday breaks into extra days off and any break is considered an unspoken..it's party time attitude. My boys' school is having and extra day off this Tuesday, they just had their hollidays a few weeks ago and now they turned Easter break into a longer one. They seem to have more hollidays than we did when we were kids, hollidays for everything.
As you can see from my story here, I did wake early enough to hear the breakfast programme this morning. 5a.m. was the time. I covered my girls up so they stayed warm..and ASLEEP!! Then I continued to lay there awake until Andrew said, "I am going to the workshop early today to get the job done on the Tarago". We are selling it because we got a station wagon and our friends are mad enough to be having their 4th baby so they will be buying it from us once it is all repaired. So, I got to starfish in bed and fall back to sleep until little MIss 3yr old says, "Mum...I'm awake, it's me, Mia". Great!! I put the Lion King on for her and went back to bed. Got half an hour sleep after that til Little Miss 4yr old comes in,"Mum, hello Mum, where's Dad?" So here I am blogging after making the rugrats breakfast and now theyre running around ignoring Lion King and playing tag in the house.
Think I may take them out to the park when the Sun decides to rise well and truly.
Oh, Enjoy Hot Cross buns, I intend to have some for breakfast. :)
Cheers, Cazzie!!!

Cannot help dumb!!

How dense can some people be? Can't people just use common sense?
Just an hour ago I witnessed before my very own eyes a two car collision.
Here am I sitting in my car at the lights, my light is red. Through the intersection comes a car, on a green light and at the same time another car decides to pull through on her RED arrow into the person already in the intersection. BANG! The car it hits, spins and then rolls on it's side. I looked in my rear view to see no one was moving and got out and called OOO.
"Police, fire or ambulance?", "All three thanks". As I turn around, these dim wits are tryin to break the windscreen of the car on it's side..with a massive screwdriver. Glass going everywhere.
Then, the next thing amazed me....they decide to right the car onto its wheels again with the driver in the car. "Leave it, don't do it" I am sayin, theyre like, "Well she has to get out of the car". "Well, if she has anykind of spinal damage youve just fuckin worsened it!"
They still persist to tell her to get out of the car. I sat on the road next to her and said, "Listen love, I'm a nurse, you MUST stay there, you don't appear to be injured right now but you must stay there. The ambulance is coming and they will assess you first." "But I'm alright she says", so I say,"Yes, you appear to be but it is precautionary not to move you, it is very important, OK" She agreed.
The cops and firies and ambos came quick. The heroes who righted the car fucked off before there were any questions, they knew theyd done wrong after it had been explained to them. Apart from the green shit coming out of both cars' radiators...there was no risk of any blow ups like in the movies.
The emerg services were pissed too that the car was righted up. Anyhow, I gotta say that I was glad the ambos came quick to take the lady to hospital, collar on and all. I just hope that her spine is cleared and then she can go on home and rest up over Easter. Certainly puts your life into perspective AGAIN when you see this..Im gunna enjoy my Easter and not whinge one bit...maybe a little, yet not as much.

WARNING TO ALL WOMEN!! & guys

THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU..... IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOUR MOTHER ...YOUR SISTER OR YOUR DAUGHTER...
The strangest thing happened to me today. I was sitting at a local outdoor cafe having lunch by myself and two men came and sat down at my table..... I gave them the death look, but they just casually stayed at my table and wouldn't leave me alone. I shined up my ring on my married finger, then placed my hand on the table and I hinted to them that I was married and that I was not interested in them. Luckily for me they got the hint and left, but thankfully the whole thing was captured on the Cafe's camera. I'm sending you this picture as a warning.............. just in case they try and pick you up too.

Honestly, some men think they are God's gift.
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Then I fell out of bed and woke up!!!!!!
So how did your day start?
Cheers Cazzie!!!

Dontcha love primping up your own profile?????

Last evening I worked my preverbial off at work, I just love being a nurse. I kind of put the extra "f" in the word effort when I am in nurse mode. Its true, the cleche saying, "But I have always wanted to be a nurse since...well...since I could ever remember". It was the question always asked in interviews and always the question "What do you have to offer this facility?" Never a doubt that was asked. Yet, the question I gave the best answer to was undoubtedly, "So Carolyn, what will you do if you don't get this position?" My reply..."Well, I have been sending in a resume every fortnight for the past 7 months to this very facility. It is just undoubtedly THE place I want to work because I have some relevant experience to offer, and more than that...I have got such potential for growth and that includes learning what your preceptors have to offer me. I have wanted to be a nurse ever since I can remember, this job here is THE stepping stone I need to progress towards the things I want to accomplish. Along the way, I can offer the facility that employs me my devotion. So...if I don't get this position, you will be receiving more of my resume's, every fortnight until I am hired". Dontcha love primping up your own profile to others, I mean, I am no means up myself at all, but you have to be in interviews and besides..I do believe every word I said. Just that, being an Aussie, no-one is ever patted on the back for beating their own drum, more likely, you are just outcast as a "know it all looser" if youre so confident.
Well, what I said seemed to impress the panel of 5 peoples there, all sitting behind a desk and little old me (21 at the time) in the centre of the room on the interrogation chair,LOL. All thats missing is the spotlight, which would have been handy coz then I wouldnt have been able to see the panel of people before me. Yet, the best idea is to keep eye contact and so I did.
The last question was..."I just have one more question for you...what footy team do you barrack for?" I was like, "What the..?" At the time I was Carlton (Now converted to Tigers since I married the love of my life) and it seemed to be a winner with the guys there, they may just have had bets on what we all barracked for for all I know. Seems to me that I would probably, if I were the intervewer, ask that question first, as an ice breaker..then again, your could just hand the person being interviewed an ice pick to do that job...
Cheers Cazzie!!!

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No Granny nap today...

So today began at 4am for me, lying there, waiting for the sun to rise, swearing at myself because I couldn't sleep..oh well, I though I might get some shuteye after lunch..have a Granny nap you know.. WRONG!!!
I took the boys to school, girls to kinder-creche and then I was on my own (or: by my own self as my girls' say, hehe!). So I ventured on to visit a friend, more like a mum to me than my mum, only my mum gave birth to me and that's the best thing she could ever have done..Amen!!
We had some morning tes together, some toast with Vegimite, yes, that black stuff that makes you gag if you use as much of it as you do peanut butter. TIP: Don't lather Vegimite like there's no tomorrow, it is not a great idea.
Then..low and behold, a mouse appeared before our eyes..NO...there were no psychedelic drugsmixed into our cup of coffee..the mouse was real. So we set a trap. My friend put some bread on a mousetrap..not cheese, then a few minutes later..SNAP..got it!! Ten minutes later again, I heard another mouse, same area of the house, we reset the trap and SNAP got it. A few hours down the track we had 4 mice dead..seems they love bread..even if it was wholemeal.
My friend has THE cleanest house I know, yet her neighbour had just recently taken down an old shed and we think the little Stuart Little Family decided to reside under the freezer there in my friends' place. I am just glad my girls were not there or they'd have us up in years to come for causing trauma to their psyche for killing Stuart Little's Family.
So that was part of my day today, waiting for the mice to go for the bread on the trap.
Well, Autumn is more like Winter today here in Melbourne, my hands are freezing so I'm off to warm them up in front of the heater.
Cheers Cazzie!!!

Lollypop Ladies.....

This morning I awoke at 5:30am..again, this has happened the past two weeks..I think I may go insane!! I get so cross at myself and the world that I cannot possibly go back to the land of noddy again. So I get up and make me a coffee. Then, taking Rebecca's comment into consideration, I ate my apple (that I usualy have for morning tea) before having my usual breakfast. My, I feel refreshed.. :)
Dropped the boys off at school this morning, was stopped by all the 3 lollypop ladies on the way there. My, they think they're invincible I am sure...they just step out on the road, stand there with their lollypop infront of them and blow their whistle (which a mum cannot hear over the noise of kids fighting in the car anyhow). Then the stream of kids with parents in tow cross the road at a slow pace with the lollypop lady smiling at them. There's always the kid that has their bag open and their books just happen to fall out onto the crossing, right in the middle I have to add. So then the time sitting there doubles, and the kids are making more of a racket in the car and I'm just thinking, "think happy thoughts...be happy...watch the thinker".
So, I leave for the school half an hour earlier than usual now, then the travel doesn't seem so treacherous.
When I got home there's oodles of junk mail pertaining to Easter...so commercial now isnt it? I mean, as if we didn't know it was about to happen...then again, cannot blame us for thinking it has been dragged out..Hot Cross Buns have been on the supermarket shelves since the day after Christmas. My they are yummy though . So I forgive my kids for believing that Easter Bunny has forgotten them! I guess next we will be putting up the Christmas lights around Mother's day, because Christmas specials will be advertised before we know it..
Cheers, Cazzie!!!

Why not do mornings?

The title of my Blog spot is a true and valid reflection upon me..."I just don't do mornings!!!" How can this be?..people that know me have gotta ask..that's because they know I have the busiest house out..with 4 sproutlings under 9yrs of age, life is never dull. It also means that every day has a new begining..a new begining at the lovely hour of 7am, or earlier if little miss 3yr old decides it is time to wake everyone by turning all the lights on in the house. Also by putting Hi 5 on at 20,000 decibels of pure sound.(Not sure what that means but I'm sure you get the gist of it by now..it's damn loud!)
I work as a nurse and even earlier in my career, 15yrs old working at a nursing home, I just was never good at early morning starts. Now, I have to have at least a few coffees before venturing out the door. The day begins with getting out of bed, making the bed and diving in the shower. It will never be a good day if the bed is not made first..it seems to set me up for an on par day if I make sure it is the very first thing I do.
Going to the loo or even having a shower is never done in peace...except for when I am at work and in that case I certainly do not have the tribe with me to stand guard of the door and ask me 50 questions at one...including the frequent, "Are you doing a poo or a wee mum?" from the youngest sproutling.
Yes, peace comes to me when I am at work, even if my shift is in the Emergency Department that day. Although, I have to say that peace comes to me when I search for myself..very deep I know yet true.
I find my "self" when I find the time to meditate, or when I find the time to read a passage from my favourite book. Bliss I have to say.
Enough for now, let you chew over these things that have been said here for now..
Cheers, Cazzie!!!